For many moons now I’ve been touting my love for the iGoogle custom homepage, it works and works well, minus the recent facelift for the worse that it has undergone.  For as long as tabs have been enabled on it I’ve kept my feeds really well organized and sorted out, easily adding more but never removing until now.  I’ve deleted a few here and there that have just failed or the blog owner did something to the RSS feed that made me resubscribe, but generally speaking I haven’t done a full sweep of sites I no longer read since I’ve started to use it.

I add a lot of sites to iGoogle, mostly ones that I quickly want to scan over and read on a regular basis, some because one main article got me interested and I want to continue to follow and a few get added because I’m getting into a new hobby or want to learn more.  So why would I remove these sites?  A few reasons, but lack of content, lack of engaging content or lack of updates are the top three reasons.  Sometimes a blog has gone so far in a completely different direction from when I originally subscribed that it’s simply no longer relevant and I have no interest in reading it.  Rather than just remove them and move on with my life, I figured I’d share with you which one’s I’m removing, maybe someone will find a use for them.  So here we go, broken down by the tabs I have for them in iGoogle:

Home

  • Uncrate – They had some cool stuff but most of it really has no interest to me anymore
  • TvRSS.net – Search Based – this was the add-on I had for one specific TV show, which I still watch just don’t have a need for in my Home tab anymore.  I still use and really appreciate TvRSS though.
  • Born Rich – For a while this had some really cool stuff that no one should be able to afford, but the content just isn’t all that appealing to me anymore.

Blogging & Shit

  • BlogOnExpo – I can’t even tell you why I subscribed to this feed in the first place.
  • Performancing.com – Originally I was using one of their WordPress plugins, but that lasted only about 24 hours until I realized it didn’t do what I wanted it to.
  • A List Apart – I really wanted to get into reading this blog, it has well written, solid articles.  No matter how much I try though, I just could never get into it. It’s probably the most well established blog I’m deleting today.
  • muhammad saleem – Muhammad is one of the top diggers of all time and knows his way around a blog.  I started to follow his blog after he dugg an article here on Randomn3ss but none of his headlines ever caught my attention enough to make me want to click and read an article.  Sorry.
  • Copyblogger – Another blog about blogging that I started to follow in hopes of further developing my writing skills.  Only read a few articles, the content is there, my attention span for the subject matter isn’t though.
  • Life Rocks 2.0 – Another blog I don’t recall why I started to subscribe to.
  • Dawud Miracle – Another blog I don’t recall why I started to subscribe to.
  • 45n5′s blog – Great content, but I have enough blogs on blogging.
  • we make money not art – I know there is a reason I subscribe, I just can’t recall.
  • PluginZilla – This is a pretty new subscription for me but the feed but it takes days to update properly.  It’s a blog focused on showcasing WordPress plugins, of which I use a lot, but the feed not updating fast enough and not enough updates to the blog itself made me loose all interest.
  • i help you blog – Hasn’t been updated since June 2008.  That alone is enough of a reason.
  • How to Change the World – yet another blog I don’t recall why I started to subscribe to.

Celebrity Shit

  • Attuworld.com – NSFW site, but the RSS feed hasn’t worked properly in months

Photography / Art

  • Zoom In – Great content, but most of it doesn’t interest me anymore.
  • N.Design Studio – I originally subscribed to follow the tutorials but two updates in 6 months isn’t enough to warrent a subscription in my RSS reader.
  • Photopreneur – This site is about making money selling and marketing your photos, all the articles are really well written and I sell my photos, but I’ve never been able to make use of anything.
  • Sawse – Cool design blog but I can’t even tell you the last time I read it.
  • Confessions of a Photo Blogger – I know there is a reason I started to follow this blog but I don’t know why now.
  • DSLRBLOG – Content comes here and there but the site is down currently, so it’s getting the axe.
  • The F Stop – Interviews with people in the photography industry, sadly I never know who they are and don’t bother to read.  Still really well done with solid content.
  • PSDTUTS – As the name implies, it’s a blog featuring Photoshop tutorials.  As much as I want to learn and follow them, I rarely do.
  • StockPhotoTalk – Covers breaking news in the stock photography industry but it’s so watered down and contains such little content aside from links to other news outlets I rarely read it anymore.
  • Annual Report Photographer David Tejada “The f-Stops Here” – David is an amazing photographer, his work stands on it’s on, but the blog has very little to keep me coming backand is built on Blogspot, so visually it’s not real appealing.  Sorry David.
  • Feed Your Wall – FYW was a great art blog focusing on screen print artists, but after putting up a Back Soon… blog post in June, the site has been vacant.

The only tab I’m not covering now is my Gadgets / Tech tab because I honestly very rarely click on it, so the whole thing might get the axe.  This cleaning was long over-due and I feel that removing nearly 50% of all my feeds will make me a better reader for the sites I do have and make room for some new ones!

If anyone finds these newly deleted from my RSS reader sites worth following, drop a comment as to why, I’m curious to see what you like about that particular site.  For the authors of the blogs, it’s nothing personal, just trying to keep my focus in the vast sea of sites I read daily.

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